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James Mackintosh

ARTICLES BY JAMES MACKINTOSH

The Bank of England. (File Photo: Bloomberg)

Central banks are stuck in a rinse-and-repeat cycle of crises

4 min read . 16 Aug 2026

Investors are bracing for bigger and more frequent shocks to the economy.(Photo: Getty Images via AFP)

How to invest when the global crises never stop

3 min read . 12 Jul 2026

SpaceX shares debuted last week in the largest initial public offering ever. (File Photo: Bloomberg)

All the money flooding into AI is a giant warning sign

4 min read . 21 Jun 2026

A Micron Technology high-bandwidth memory chip on display. Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg News

AI chip mania sows seeds of its own destruction

4 min read . 17 May 2026

Voters likely won’t tolerate high fuel prices for long, something President Trump has shown he cares about.

Three reasons the stock market can endure the war

4 min read . 29 Mar 2026

Traders working on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading this week.

War is raging. Tankers are burning. Yet the stock market isn’t panicking—for now

4 min read . 13 Mar 2026

The last time the sectors diverged so much was just before Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse. (File Photo: AFP)

What to make of this very weird market

3 min read . 19 Feb 2026

Silver and gold prices spiraled downward Friday in their worst day in decades.

An investor’s guide to the boom (and bust) in gold and silver

4 min read . 02 Feb 2026

The New York Stock Exchange. Investors who held on to U.S. stocks all year made good money.

In a wild year for markets, investors who did nothing did just fine

4 min read . 29 Dec 2025

The U.K. government in its latest budget ignored its promises to go for growth.

Is America heading for a debt crisis? Look abroad for answers

5 min read . 30 Nov 2025

The core of the AI debate is whether all the spending on chips and research will eventually lead to big enough profits to justify the huge outlays. (Bloomberg)

AI investors want more making it and less faking it

3 min read . 23 Nov 2025

Quarterly profits have soared at Nvidia, Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft as AI-related revenue poured in (Meta’s were wiped out by tax). (Getty Images via AFP)

Big Tech’s soaring profits have an ugly underside: OpenAI’s losses

4 min read . 13 Nov 2025

Gold is meant to be the ultimate safe asset to protect from the follies of the government and banks. Amid follies aplenty, gold has doubled in the past two years. (Pixabay)

Can gold keep rising? Depends if you think this time is different

4 min read . 18 Oct 2025

Microsoft is sitting on $95 billion in cash and has only $40 billion of long-term debt. (File Photo: Reuters)

Why Microsoft has lower borrowing costs than the US

4 min read . 29 Sept 2025

U.S.-listed companies have been required to report results quarterly for decades.

All the reasons Trump would be wrong to ditch quarterly earnings

4 min read . 19 Sept 2025

But as in 1964, investors are taking on a lot more of the single-stock risk that diversification is meant to shield against. (Bloomberg)

The market’s riskier than it used to be—and investors love it

4 min read . 14 Sept 2025

Markets aren’t concerned in part because Trump seems to back down from extreme moves when markets sell off. (Getty Images via AFP)

Five reasons the market doesn’t care about Trump firing Lisa Cook

3 min read . 28 Aug 2025

(Illustration: Rachel Mendelson/WSJ, iStock)

Why the latest meme stock craze won’t take down the overall market

4 min read . 01 Aug 2025

The More Trump Pressures the Fed, the Less Likely He Gets Lower Rates

The more Trump pressures the Fed, the less likely he gets lower rates

5 min read . 25 Jul 2025

If you just want to make money, the coal miners or oil producers will be worth buying at some price. (REUTERS)

There’s more information than ever on ESG investing, but it isn’t helping

3 min read . 08 Jul 2025